Stars power past Oilers 6-4

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Bill Guerin scored two goals and Mike Modano notched the game-winner as the Dallas Stars beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-4 at the American Airlines Center Tuesday night. Jussi Jokinen, Stu Barnes and Martin Skoula also scored for the Stars, who improved to 2-1-0 on the pre-season. Jason Arnott chipped in four assists.

Marty Turco, making his first appearance of the pre-season, played the entire game in goal for the Stars, stopping 18 of 22 shots.

The Stars got off to a quick start when Jokinen scored on a slap shot from just outside the top of the left faceoff circle 1:22 into the game.

The Oilers bounced back with a pair of goals to take a 2-1 lead. Jarret Stoll beat Marty Turco five-hole at 4:03 of the first and then Robbie Schremp scored a power play goal off a rebound at the 6:54 mark.

The Stars drew even at 15:30 when Antti Miettinen set up Guerin, who scored into the open side of the net from point blank range.

Stoll scored again for the Oilers at 18:49 of the second period when his shot went by Turco, who was screened by Ryan Smyth. That left Edmonton leading 3-2 after the first 20 minutes.

The Stars pulled even just under six minutes into the second period when Vojtech Polak set up Barnes, who scored a power play goal from a sharp angle.

Ex-Star Todd Harvey put Edmonton up at 9:04 of the second period when he scored after the Stars turned over the puck in their own end.

But a little more than three minutes later Skoula tied the game for the Stars with a blast from just inside the blue line.

The Stars scored two power play goals in a 3:07 span of the third period to take control of the game. The first one came when Modano scored off the rebound of a Guerin shot at the 5:23 mark.

Guerin notched his second goal of the game when, stationed by the side of the net, he took a pass from Jason Arnott and whipped it into the net.

The Oilers had a chance to cut the lead to 6-5, but Turco came up with a great diving save on Oilers forward Fernando Pisani.

 

Dallas at Edmonton Box Score
American Airlines Center/Dallas, Texas	1	2	3	F
Edmonton Oilers	3	1	0	4
Dallas Stars	2	2	2	6
First Period
Scoring: 1, Dallas, Jussi Jokinen 3 (Jere Lehtinen, Sergei Zubov), 1:22. 2, Edmonton, Jarret Stoll 2 (Raffi Torres, Chris Pronger), 4:03. 3, Edmonton, Rob Schremp 1 (power play) (Kyle Brodziak, Marc-Andre Bergeron), 6:54. 4, Dallas, Bill Guerin 1 (Antti Miettinen, Jason Arnott), 15:30. 5, Edmonton, Jarret Stoll 3 (power play) (Unassisted), 18:49. Penalties: C Cross, Edm (holding), 1:34; V Polak, Dal (goalie interference), 4:43; J Lehtinen, Dal (holding), 5:11; S Barnes, Dal (hooking), 9:22; F Pisani, Edm (holding), 9:30; D Jancevski, Dal (hooking served by S Zubov), 15:46; J Erskine, Dal (interference), 18:01; M Pouliot, Edm (hooking), 20:00
Second Period
Scoring: 6, Dallas, Stu Barnes 1 (power play) (Vojtech Polak, Yared Hagos), 5:53. 7, Edmonton, Todd Harvey 1 (Unassisted), 9:04. 8, Dallas, Martin Skoula 1 (Jason Arnott, Bill Guerin), 12:29. Penalties: M Skoula, Dal (holding), 2:15; D Syvret, Edm (hooking), 4:41; R Torres, Edm (holding stick), 10:26; C Cross, Edm (hooking), 15:40; B Crombeen, Dal (hooking), 18:47
Third Period
Scoring: 9, Dallas, Mike Modano 1 (power play) (Bill Guerin, Jason Arnott), 5:23. 10, Dallas, Bill Guerin 2 (power play) (Jason Arnott, Mike Modano), 8:30.  Penalties: A Miettinen, Dal (hooking), 2:05; M Pouliot, Edm (tripping), 4:51; R Torres, Edm (tripping), 8:20; M Skoula, Dal (holding), 8:48
Stats
Shots On Goal	1	2	3	Total
Edmonton Oilers	12	3	7	22
Dallas Stars	13	10	11	34
Power Plays
Edmonton: 2-8 Dallas: 3-10
Goaltenders
Edmonton, Jeff Deslauriers (18 shots, 14 saves), Devan Dubnyk (12:29 of 2nd period, 16, 14; record: 0-1-0). Dallas, Marty Turco (22 shots, 18 saves; record: 1-0-0